7.9
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.
Episode 1Aug 17, 2021 · 48m · ★ 6.2On her first day in the new role, Annika and the team are called in to solve the murder of a man found in the Clyde, a harpoon piercing his head. The investigation leads them to the victim's struggling boat business, where not everything is above board.
Episode 2Aug 24, 2021 · 48m · ★ 5.8When a body is found on a boat in the Clyde, the case takes the team to the Isle of Bute. Evidence points to a jilted lover, but a darker secret emerges as the team investigate.
Episode 3Aug 31, 2021 · 48m · ★ 6.0When the body of a scientist is found in Loch Katrine, Annika is reminded of Ibsen's Enemy of the People. But with so many wanting him dead, which one did he push over the edge?
Episode 4Sep 7, 2021 · 46m · ★ 5.6The team are called in when writer Cara Gibson is found dead under a bridge. Her books ruined careers and left a lot of lives in tatters, but which of these people would be driven to murder?
Episode 5Sep 14, 2021 · 46m · ★ 5.8Annika and the team are tasked with solving the death of a man 'everybody loved', who was thrown in the river from a party boat.
Episode 6Sep 21, 2021 · 46m · ★ 5.8A young woman murdered on the Glasgow docks hits the team hard when Michael's brother is named as the next of kin.
The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.
Nicola WalkerDI Annika Strandhed
Jamie SivesDS Michael McAndrews
Katie LeungDC Blair Ferguson
Silvie FurneauxMorgan Strandhed
Ukweli RoachDS Tyrone Clarke
Kate DickieDCI Diane Oban
Paul McGannJake Strathearn
Varada SethuDC Harper Weston
Sven Henriksen
Availability for your region. Streaming data provided by JustWatch.
The punch line is that I enjoyed the show and would recommend you give it a try, a few episodes to better appreciate it. I saw a lot of one-star reviews on this show. Usually that signals unhappiness due to racism or anger at having diversity in characters after 70 years of all straight white men all the time, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. So I will address a few of the complaints. Tired of detectives with messy personal lives and especially stroppy teenagers. Okay, I will admit I was pleased with the Rowan Atkinson version of Maigret because Finally a detective had a good marriage. But as for this show, I wonder how many of the reviewers who pointed that out were a bit stroppy themselves as teenagers? Plus if they had watched more than one show or part of one show, they would have seen realistic slow growth in the character and their damaged relationship. If anything, I think Annika’s team is a bit stroppy, and the series works on that, also. Some also didn’t like her talking directly to the camera. I will make another admission that I became tired of this technique in Atypical, the only little thing that bothered me on that great program, but I don’t mind it in this show. It brings out Annika’s witty side and illustrates she is well read. And I loved how they used it late in the final episode. Others moaned about weak plots and dialogue, etc., but I didn’t see that. Now I think it might have benefited from being 90 minutes. The cases wrap up almost hastily sometimes in the hour format. A lot of shows develop one case all season long. Some people seemed to want Nicola Walker to reprise her role from Unforgotten, but that is too silly to comment on. Others liked some original radio version and were fixated on that. (I believe the tv version was adapted by the same guy, so what’s up with that?) As a side note, I usually do okay with Scottish accents, but at times characters talked fast or mumbled and I had a little trouble. My version had no captions for some reason. So, yeah, I enjoyed the show and hope they renew it.
Series 12021 · 6 episodes
Series 22023 · 6 episodes
Saskia AshdownSam Decosta
Hannah DonaldsonMs Hill
Sophie SloanMaddie McAndrews
Imogen Mackie WalkerSigi Gunderson
Caroline GuthrieIsla HendryAnnika is a touch above the usual conveyor belt, crime drama's we have come to expect from the UK. The key to its success, is its not afraid to be intelligent and witty. The key character often launches into what the world of drama call, asides. A dramatic technique, often associated with Shakespearean productions, where a character steps outside of the play and addresses the audience, directly. Its interesting to see this technique utilised in this context and oddly, it works. That's because Annika typically has something engaging, to say. By contrast, the crimes Annika and her team solve, are fairly pedestrian. Its a shame they could not have come up with intelligent tales to match the well crafted, characterisations. While we are on the subject, why is it almost every episode, the criminal or an accomplice, tries to run away? The other downside is the predictable woke-ness, on display. Its understandable people find it tiresome. I, for one, have no issues with alternative life styles, etc but its not even remotely, representative of life for most people. Why incessantly try to pretend, it is? In summary, a better than average UK crime drama that would have been better again, had the crime tales, been as ably rendered, as the characterisations.
This was my second show with this actress as the main character and I spent a lot of the first season wondering if she has a vibe she’s typecast in. And I am not usually one for the breaking of the fourth wall in this way, but it grew on me by the end of the third episode. I definitely wish there was more.
2004
1973
2022
1955
2025
2024
1989
2018
1957
2019
1975
2021
2018
2002
2010
1993
2008
2014
2004
2026